Towards multimodal public information systems
Magnus Merkel, Arne Jönsson · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 2001
ystem can utilise various types of modalities in order to present information, not only natural language (spoken or written) but also graphics, images, videos, and tables. In this paper we will, however, only consider natural language processing aspects, and especially dialogue and domain knowledge management. In the scenario in Figure 1, above, the use of dialogue allows formulation of the information needs in a fragmented fashion. The system had to collect further information before it could present something useful and this also often involves clarification sub-dialogues. When such a request has been completed, it can be used to retrieve the required information. Information processing of documents. In this paper we use information processing to mean interpretation and adaptation of information stored as natural language documents. Dialogue systems need structured information in order to support advanced information retrieval and problem so